Alright, if it's quality you're after (which I certainly agree with),
there's another statistic that can be used, total database size.
Of course, you could fill a database with 3 gigabytes of stub pages,
but it would be many, many, more stub pages and a much more "complete"
Stub-Wikipedia than if you were to fill it with 3 gigabytes of HQ
non-stub articles. It also doesn't take linguistic considerations into
effect (texts in one language may be longer than equivalent texts in
another)
It goes (stats from December)
1 English - ~2500mb
2 German - ~1000mb
3 Japanese - ~550mb
4 French - ~550mb
5 Polish - ~300mb
6 Italian - ~300mb
7 Dutch - ~250mb
8 Spanish - ~225mb
9 Portuguese - ~175mb
...
12 Chinese - ~125mb
13 Hebrew - ~125mb
...
26 Turkish - ~33mb
...
32 Arabic - ~26mb
The biggest divorce seems to be with the Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and
Turkish Wikipedias.
This may or may not have something to do with it, but take a look at
the Spanish vs French mainpages -- the French one mentions very, very
prominently that anyone can edit, the Spanish one does not. The
Chinese WP does mention it, I'm not 100% sure about the Arabic or
Turkish.
Erik Moeller also has some good points.
Mark
On 28/03/06, 오현성 <chamdalae(a)dreamwiz.com> wrote:
Mark,
I don't agree with all of your conclusions here....
What this says to me is that these Wikipedias are
not attracting new
pages proportional to views when compared with other Wikipedias. This
may be because people don't want to write new pages, but it seems to
me more likely that people simply don't know they can.
There are all kinds of possible reasons for this. It isn't necessarily because
non-Europeans (and the wikipedias you seem to be referring to are mostly non-European
wikipedias) are less likely to know that they can write new articles. Perhaps people are
less interested in writing new articles, perhaps they're content with the articles
that are there, or perhaps they have other ways to spend their time. Perhaps they _are_
increasingly writing new articles - some of the wikipedias you listed might still be
small, but they are growing rapidly.
How can this be fixed? Perhaps a site notice
inviting people to write
quality pages or register, or a drive to recruit new Wikipedians from
the academic community.
I think here you're confusing the issues of quantity and quality. Writing
'quality pages', or inviting academics to do so, isn't the way to boost page
count quickly. And I'm sure many academics would be less interested in the number of
articles a wikipedia has than the quality of those articles anyway. Perhaps it would be
better to forget about page count and focus on improving the overall quality of
wikipedia.
Hyunsung
Mark
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